Gates v. . State’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably United States v. Angeline Lombardo (1916), 14 E.H. Smith 123 - Missano v. Mayor of New York (1899)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 51 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Foot v. Stevens · McDougall v. . State of New York
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If we should hold that the mailing by a claimant of his claim directed to the canal appraisers was equivalent to a filing in the office, I think we should be disregarding the plain reading of the law, and denying to the words of the statute their plain and usual force and significance."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.